Overview

Monte Adamello 3539 m

The Adamello page will be kept in honour of Franz Rota Nodari, the member known as Franz77, the former owner of this page, fell on Mount Concarena on March 2018 during a climb.

Monte Adamello with its 3539 m is the highest peak and the most representative of the namesake granite group, the Adamello Group, located beetween Lombardia and Trentino Regions. Adamello is situated between M. Falcone and Passo dell'Adamello and has a fairly simple topography, drawn by the two main watershed ridges, the ENE ridge and the SO ridge, and from the NW spur. the two great North and West walls give the mountain a majestic and harsh appearance, while the South East side is much more gentle, rising like a modest dome from the frozen plains of Pian di Neve. The valleys that bring to the group have very different directions and they have the shape of a “star”. All these valleys represents a possible way to reach the summit with different difficult and length.

Adamello Group annotated view seen from M. Guglielmo

The panorama offered by the summit is great, for its height and above all its position, and embraces the whole horizon. In World War I Adamello was the scene of fierce fighting between Italians and Austrians, and many were the fallen. There are still numerous remains of fortifications and armaments.

The first known ascent of the mountain was accomplished by Julius Payer with Giovanni Caturani on September 15, 1864, after an attempt made a week before the victorious ascent.

Adamello seen from Biv. Orobica (Presanella)

From the route to M. Venerocolo

Getting There

The Parco dell'Adamello can be approached from Lombardia Region, Alto Adige and Trentino Region. By car, the Adamello Park can be reached using: a) the state roads coming from Brescia and Bergamo; they combine near Darfo Boario Terme in to the only state road of the Mendola, which is near the western limits of the Park from Breno till the Tonale; b) the state road coming from Valtellina to Edolo, through Aprica; c) the state roads coming from Bolzano, through the road of the Mendola, and from Trento, through Cles and Malé, which reach the Park at Tonale Pass.

Note the colours of the access routes (Atlante d'Italia - De Agostini)

Normal Routes Overview

Standard route to Monte Adamello.

Adamello is a famous peak, one of the most climbed in the Alps in reason of its fabulous panorama and its standard routes never very difficult to get the summit. There are three main standard Normal routes: two ones from Lombardy (North-West and South) and another one from Trentino (North-East).

- ENE ridge Difficulty: Alpine F

This route is considered the Normal route for the alpinist starting both from Rif. Garibaldi (Lombardy) and Rif. Città di Trento and Rif. Lobbia (Trentino). The route largely coincides with the itinerary of the first climbers. The itinerary coming from the Lombardia side and that one coming from the Trentino side converge in the upper part near the eastern side of the Corno Bianco.

Via Ferrata Terzulli

Corno Bianco and Adamello

- South side Difficulty: Alpine F

Another easy way to climb Monte Adamello starting from Rifugio Prudenzini (Lombardy)

- SW side Difficulty: Alpine F

This route starts from Rifugio Gnutti (Lombardy) through Val Miller and has become popular after the equipment of the "Via Ferrata Terzulli".

Walking on the Adamello Glacier

The summit of Adamello

Other routes

North side of Monte Adamello,...

There are many other routes of about 600 meters on the mighty West, NW and N walls. The routes of this side are rarely climbed due to the bad quality of the rock. Amongs these itineraries the most frequently attended route is the North Ridge. Main routes:

- West Face UIAA IV, V, VI- 600 m

- NW Ridge UIAA II, III, IV, 600 m

- NNW Ridge UIAA IV, V, A1, then III and IV, 700 m

- North Ridge III, IV, IV+, 700 m

The North face of Monte...

Red Tape

No fees no permits needed and no particular restriction in climbing and hiking. Adamello is located within Adamello-Brenta Natural Park, the largest protected area in Trentino, established in the year 1967. It's located in Western Trentino and with its 620.51 square kilometers includes the mountain groups of Adamello, Presanella and Brenta Dolomites, separated by Val Rendena. On the other side (Lombardy) there is the Parco dell'Adamello, which extends for 510 square kilometers on the left orographic side of Valle Camonica, in the north-eastern portion of the Province of Brescia.

Pay attention to the accessibility of Val di Genova road (usually closed to private cars from 9 to 18 in full summer).

The summit of Monte Adamello

The peak has a pyramidal shape and is possible to see it from a lot of places on the Pianura Padana and from a lot of peaks in Lombardy.

The final pyramid of Monte...

Adamello close-up from Monte Guglielmo

When To Climb

Mountaineering: from June to September - in early season be careful to the glaciers conditions, obviously!

Ski-mountaineering: from March to May

Camping

We are in the Park of Adamello-Brenta groups and camping and overnight are not allowed but sometimes it is necessary (out of season). The refuges are many and there are good bivouacs too.

The Adamello glaciers

The Adamello Group is one of the most icy areas in the Italian Alps. It includes about 80 glaciers with different wideness (from less than 1 sqkm to 18 sqkm of the Adamello glacier), exposure and morphology and it has been studied by various researchers since more than a century of years. The glacier morphology of this group has a particular interest because of its singularity. It has Scandinavian and Nordic plateau structure. This apparatus with its different effluences and tongues has different names depending on the valley that they occupies.

The Adamè glacier tongue

The Mandrone glacier effluence

On the North, the glacier arrive till 2400 m a.s.l. in Trentino Region and it is called Ghiacciaio Mandrone. In the South side there are three tongues called Adamè, Salarno and Miller. Every flux of ice takes its name from the valley and also the route of climb. The highest plateau of ice has the impressive name of Pian di Neve. The water that comes from the glaciers is divided between different watersheds: on the North side the Sarca river through the Trentino Region enters the Garda Lake; in the South side, tributary rivers arrive to the Oglio river and then enter the Iseo Lake.

In Memory of Franz Rota Nodari

Franz Nota Rodari

Francesco Rota Nodari, Franz for everyone, member of the Club Alpino Italiano Sez. Bergamo since 1987 and of the Club4000, died on March 23rd 2018 during a climb on Concarena 2549 m, the highest mountain of the Prealpi Bergamasche. He fell down during the descent from the mountain after having climbed a new route, due to the breakdown of a peg. Expert mountaineer, he had climbed all the 82 4000 of the Alps. He worked at the Polytechnic as an expert researcher in glaciology. He had joined SP in the year 2005 and registered as Franz77.

Rest in peace, brother!

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